For decision making I'd suggest using consensus where ever possible with a fall back to majority voting when consensus fails, which isn't an option in the current poll.

In terms of how formal CoTech should be I'd suggest that our main priority should be sorting out how we can organise ourselves best to win and deliver work for clients (once we have that solved we should have spare time and resources to address everything else) and that if this necessitates a legal entity then we should set one up and the question of membership cost would be determined by the nature of this organisation.

As these are polls, I'm sharing my own opinion not necessarily that of Go Free Range :-)

Yes indeed @chrislowis - it's just to gather opinions.

Thanks for this @harryrobbins - just to make the point that, at present, we're actually all in here as individuals. I think we also need a defined representative from each co-op.

The "structure" that has emerged over the last year, and which has been previously discussed, is a two-tier approach with a large and loose network of interested/supportive/aligned individuals and organisations coalescing around an inner group of people and orgs that have a more focused interest in what's happening and are moving the thing forward. I think this model has served well and should be maintained and encouraged.
Any more formal entity that might come out of discussions should be driven by decisions/discussions about what CoTech's purpose and short to medium term aims and objectives might be. The thrust of debate seems to be primarily about how to better work together to win business and to execute those contracts. If so, then any structure and details like common fund (how about paying a percentage of income earned through collaborative effort?) would be defined by those plans in my view.

To reiterate, this year's facilitation team (me, @peteburden and @laurahilliger) are in principle up for advising/supporting next year's facilitators.

The summer camp was more in my line... so would tentatively volunteer for something similar if there is any interest

HI @roy, @louisescott is on it! Re structure next year, I'm leaning towards a) open space preceded by agenda-building discussion on Discourse b) if we can make good progress on process/governance in the next few months, try and make Wortley Hall slightly more collaboration/business building and shorten to two full days starting on a Sunday evening.